rsync on centOS fails

PoleStar · 12-03-2018, 01:15 PM

Hi,
I am trying to make a local repo server.
When I try to download packages on the server in the repositories
it fails.
Please look at the output.

Quote:

rsync -v -rz --progress rsync://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/centos/6/os/x86_64/ /repos/CentOS/6/5/
rsync: failed to connect to mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca: Connection timed out (110)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(124) [receiver=3.0.6]

How ever the website is reachable from the server in general.

Quote:

wget http://centos.mirror.rafal.ca/6/os/x86_64/
--2018-12-03 19:13:29-- http://centos.mirror.rafal.ca/6/os/x86_64/
Connecting to xxx.xx.xx.xx:3xx8... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3485 (3.4K) [text/html]
Saving to: “index.html.1”

Thank you.

scasey · 12-03-2018, 01:30 PM

from man rsync

Code:

       Access via rsync daemon:
         Pull: rsync [OPTION...] [USER@]HOST::SRC... [DEST]
               rsync [OPTION...] rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC... [DEST]

So it appears that your syntax is OK IF the remote server is running the rsync daemon and IF they don't require a user.
Based on getting "Connection timed out" I'm guessing they're not running the daemon or you need to supply the port.

Also noted is that the server you're attempting to rsync to is not the server you connected to with wget.
rsync: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/
http: centos.mirror.rafal.ca/

Edit: At centos.org I find

Code:

http://centos.mirror.rafal.ca/	ftp://centos.mirror.rafal.ca/pub/CentOS/	rsync://centos.mirror.rafal.ca/CentOS/

Edit 2: The uwaterloo.ca rsync:// is also listed at centos.org, and can be reached with a web browser. Maybe their rsync is not working. Have you tried another mirror?

PoleStar · 12-03-2018, 02:08 PM

Thank you for your reply.
I am using 'reposync' it seems to be working with out issue.